The/. and the BBC articles are quite misleading. The proposed Law for the Olymp*c G*mes only amends the current "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Act 1995"
By the way, this 1995 law really has a funny name...
There is a Asus P/E-P55T2P4D which is a dual Pentium I-mainboard which was presented in March of 1994.
It is possible to install Win2K on this computer, the computer detects both CPUs and runs, hmmm, smooth until you do something.
Moving the mouse increases CPU load on both CPUs to 30 per cent.
Well, it is a nice thing to play. The CPU has a small active fan but when one broke, it ran for some month. I accidentially unlocked the passive fan which lost physical contact to the CPU for some hours but it did not crash nor seems to be any damage there.
The only issue was that the BIOS battery is not that fit anymore.
Over the last years, I started to trust Slashdot more than this former CEO, so unless proven otherwise, this Gates statement might be wrong.
I remember the CES show together with Conan O'Brian (sp?) a few months ago. You could really see his implants. It was later explained with some subdermal explosions (due to high blood pressure) in Gates' body when the live demonstration of 50 per cent of the Microsoft equipment failed.
Dear Moderators. This sentence is currently rated 4, Funny.
Actually, mz001b made a valid point and all the donated hardware (which wikimedia is of course very thankful) has to be maintained by volunteers.
So if HP or IBM or whatever company feels like, they should consider donating a full-time-employee-equivalent-sponsorship to someone who is doing this great job. IMHO.
Your example was one of the reasons why the cooperation was made. As time goes by, a number of programms in and around the KDE project will use Wikipedia content more or less. Konversation, a really nice IRC client now has a feature that converts text like "Tomorrow I have an appointment in [[Bruxelles]]" into "Tomorrow I have an appointment in Bruxelles"
(so far, it does not fix spelling and grammar errors yet, my sentence might have been wrong but you might get the point.)
The services itself (all hail SOAP) will not be limited to KDE, of course but the idea just gets beyond a SOAP interface at wikipedia.org. As it is mentioned at meta, the KDE-library will be able to rely on a local mirror in case the computer is not online. From a application programmer's point of view, it will be much more comfortable.
I am sure that Danimo appreciates any feedback to his project Knowledge
Feel free to insert your suggestions how to integrate wikipedia content in your favourite applications.
...is to start a $yourcountry-Chinese joint venture to become a local company. With x>1 billion Chinese people, it shouldn't be a problem to find a proper sock puppet.
Okay, so if you live in the New York, you might actually try the following:
Use google to find a movie that might be worth the money you will be spending. Use google to find a movie theatre that has the movie on schedule. Use google's orkut or google's newly aquired dodgeball to find someone to join your movie evening. Use google ride to order a cab to the movie theatre. Use google groups to discuss the result of the evening.
So, if google was smart, they would enhance their APIs to encourage people to combine different google applications. My first attempt would be something like a google timewaster/blinddate/"hey, I'm new in this town, are there real people around?"/... Or is this something labs.google.com will provide in the next six months? and so on... I'm tired of this "what if google did a, b, c" I would like to do it myself.
In this case, Microsoft might actually be right (means: they have the legal right to do so).
It is highly questionable if their strategy will result in anything that can be called succes.
Screenshots of a programm do actually fall under the copyright of the company who created a programm. It might be legal to show a single screenshot, framed by a largely discussion (a review, a news item). Your legal system calles that "fair use". A single gallery does not meet that criterion.
Respecting copyright is actually a good thing and if you don't like it, change it.
IANAL (and even if I were, I would not know your legal system).
There is no "Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming" as the headline says. The loophole lies in the Policy for a certain TLD. It has nothing to do with internet domain naming.
Microsoft Corporation, the largest company in the world dedicated to creating computer software. Microsoft develops and sells a wide variety of software products to businesses and consumers and has subsidiary offices in more than 60 countries.... and so on...
Okay, this is pretty simple to fix*. So enjoy your time to "share the knowledge" or whatever Encarta encouraged you to do....
Encarta did an interesting step. They didn't actually "open" to feedback as they were already getting feedback, they are just trying to put this feedback into a channel they can control more easily. Microsoft does not change the license of Encarta, that is their right and a lot of people will be willing to accept that they have to pay for something they wrote. Or that they are not allowed to share the texts they contributed to.
BBC's H2G2 was also a non-free project and a lot of people were willing to contribute to that.
It will be interesting to see if Encarta can actually defend their policy of "letting someone else to do part of the work". Of course, there are much more ways to pay back the best contributors:
* Write 20 articles and your name will be in the Microsoft Blog about Encarta * Write 200 articles and you might be considered to be hired by their fact-checking department * Write 2000 articles...
The point is that there is so much more reward in a destructive behavior from some points of view.
* Who will be the first to smuggle in wrong information into an article that gets published by encarta * Who will be able to turn an article into a Microsoft-bashing pamphlet * Who will be the first to initiate a scandal about cencorship and so on...
In the end, it's a nice idea which does not meet the current standards of wikipedia.
It was announced on March 31 in the google blog. Actually, this appears to be really real. And there is no aspect in this situation that is not compatible with reality. There is GPL, WLAN, Google Maps. Most cab companies do track their cars for various reasons so there is no problem sharing this information with google.
Your point is absolutely valid. This is why most wikipedians would reject the idea that wikipedia is a democratic institution or (even worse) that article creation is following democratic rules.
There is no survey whether 2+2 is 5 or what day Alexander Hamilton was born.
This Timeline of programming languages lacks the tree information of relationships but gives a lot more examples of milestones of developing a computer language... Okay, by using the "Predecessor" line, it could be something like a tree. Hmm. I'm too tired to do it myself.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the poster was looking for something like that.
You are repeating an old urban legend.
GPL was already tried in court and it won. Welte v. Fortinet and some other.
The /. and the BBC articles are quite misleading. The proposed Law for the Olymp*c G*mes only amends the current "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Act 1995"
By the way, this 1995 law really has a funny name...
There is a Asus P/E-P55T2P4D which is a dual Pentium I-mainboard which was presented in March of 1994.
It is possible to install Win2K on this computer, the computer detects both CPUs and runs, hmmm, smooth until you do something.
Moving the mouse increases CPU load on both CPUs to 30 per cent.
Well, it is a nice thing to play. The CPU has a small active fan but when one broke, it ran for some month. I accidentially unlocked the passive fan which lost physical contact to the CPU for some hours but it did not crash nor seems to be any damage there.
The only issue was that the BIOS battery is not that fit anymore.
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif is the Slashdot topic icon for Microsoft and Gates. I clearly see a standard Borg equipment (from around 2364).
Over the last years, I started to trust Slashdot more than this former CEO, so unless proven otherwise, this Gates statement might be wrong.
I remember the CES show together with Conan O'Brian (sp?) a few months ago. You could really see his implants. It was later explained with some subdermal explosions (due to high blood pressure) in Gates' body when the live demonstration of 50 per cent of the Microsoft equipment failed.
Dear Moderators. This sentence is currently rated 4, Funny.
Actually, mz001b made a valid point and all the donated hardware (which wikimedia is of course very thankful) has to be maintained by volunteers.
So if HP or IBM or whatever company feels like, they should consider donating a full-time-employee-equivalent-sponsorship to someone who is doing this great job. IMHO.
Your example was one of the reasons why the cooperation was made. As time goes by, a number of programms in and around the KDE project will use Wikipedia content more or less. Konversation, a really nice IRC client now has a feature that converts text like "Tomorrow I have an appointment in [[Bruxelles]]" into "Tomorrow I have an appointment in Bruxelles"
(so far, it does not fix spelling and grammar errors yet, my sentence might have been wrong but you might get the point.)
The services itself (all hail SOAP) will not be limited to KDE, of course but the idea just gets beyond a SOAP interface at wikipedia.org. As it is mentioned at meta, the KDE-library will be able to rely on a local mirror in case the computer is not online. From a application programmer's point of view, it will be much more comfortable.
I am sure that Danimo appreciates any feedback to his project Knowledge
Feel free to insert your suggestions how to integrate wikipedia content in your favourite applications.
It is currently scored "Interesting". Did nobody find the "funny" moderation option or are you taking this serious?
...is to start a $yourcountry-Chinese joint venture to become a local company. With x>1 billion Chinese people, it shouldn't be a problem to find a proper sock puppet.
Most Taxi drivers I know have a good relationship with Murphy and his set of laws.
Okay, so if you live in the New York, you might actually try the following:
Use google to find a movie that might be worth the money you will be spending.
Use google to find a movie theatre that has the movie on schedule.
Use google's orkut or google's newly aquired dodgeball to find someone to join your movie evening.
Use google ride to order a cab to the movie theatre.
Use google groups to discuss the result of the evening.
So, if google was smart, they would enhance their APIs to encourage people to combine different google applications. My first attempt would be something like a google timewaster/blinddate/"hey, I'm new in this town, are there real people around?"/... Or is this something labs.google.com will provide in the next six months? and so on... I'm tired of this "what if google did a, b, c" I would like to do it myself.
This feature exists. It is implemented in the google toolbar (look for two smileys). At least I remember it in Version 1.something.
I remember on spotting this feature (which I am unable to use since google decided only to support the other side of the bath tub) some month ago.
I might add that there is some (currently unused) synergy to http://video.google.com/ . There is no reason not to extend google video to movie texts.
been there, done that
I remember "Steve Gibson" was bashed and debunked for talking about raw sockets in 2000 or 2001.
g eek_developing_winxp_raw/
There is a short audio file from Rob Rosenberg from where he repeadingly laughs at his claims.
By the way, wasn't Gibsons site defaced today by Fluffy Bunny?
http://www.farook.org/arc20010701.htm
http://www.vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=335&page=4
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/12/security_
and so on. Is there anything new that has happened in the last 4 years?
In this case, Microsoft might actually be right (means: they have the legal right to do so).
It is highly questionable if their strategy will result in anything that can be called succes.
Screenshots of a programm do actually fall under the copyright of the company who created a programm. It might be legal to show a single screenshot, framed by a largely discussion (a review, a news item). Your legal system calles that "fair use". A single gallery does not meet that criterion.
Respecting copyright is actually a good thing and if you don't like it, change it.
IANAL (and even if I were, I would not know your legal system).
Would you prefer a "That's how we slashdotted those Afghan villages"?
There is no "Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming" as the headline says. The loophole lies in the Policy for a certain TLD. It has nothing to do with internet domain naming.
Well, "don't be evil" does not mean "be stupid" or "be kind to IRS".
It's actually the other way around:
This way they are saving taxes which gives them the opportunity to be even more not-evil to all the people.
Except the IRS, or course.
When you click on this link encarta will keep quiet:
When you take the article ID 761567883 and past it into one of the edit-URLs auch as this one, you are free to see the whole article:
tataa!
Okay, this is pretty simple to fix*. So enjoy your time to "share the knowledge" or whatever Encarta encouraged you to do....
*=someone didn't do his homework....
Encarta did an interesting step. They didn't actually "open" to feedback as they were already getting feedback, they are just trying to put this feedback into a channel they can control more easily. Microsoft does not change the license of Encarta, that is their right and a lot of people will be willing to accept that they have to pay for something they wrote. Or that they are not allowed to share the texts they contributed to.
...
BBC's H2G2 was also a non-free project and a lot of people were willing to contribute to that.
It will be interesting to see if Encarta can actually defend their policy of "letting someone else to do part of the work". Of course, there are much more ways to pay back the best contributors:
* Write 20 articles and your name will be in the Microsoft Blog about Encarta
* Write 200 articles and you might be considered to be hired by their fact-checking department
* Write 2000 articles
The point is that there is so much more reward in a destructive behavior from some points of view.
* Who will be the first to smuggle in wrong information into an article that gets published by encarta
* Who will be able to turn an article into a Microsoft-bashing pamphlet
* Who will be the first to initiate a scandal about cencorship and so on...
In the end, it's a nice idea which does not meet the current standards of wikipedia.
Actually, I am working on this right now. It will take some time to get this printed but there is no need to hurry.
No, not an April's fool
It was announced on March 31 in the google blog. Actually, this appears to be really real. And there is no aspect in this situation that is not compatible with reality. There is GPL, WLAN, Google Maps. Most cab companies do track their cars for various reasons so there is no problem sharing this information with google.
Your point is absolutely valid. This is why most wikipedians would reject the idea that wikipedia is a democratic institution or (even worse) that article creation is following democratic rules.
There is no survey whether 2+2 is 5 or what day Alexander Hamilton was born.
This Timeline of programming languages lacks the tree information of relationships but gives a lot more examples of milestones of developing a computer language... Okay, by using the "Predecessor" line, it could be something like a tree. Hmm. I'm too tired to do it myself.